Altair Engineering Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Altair Engineering full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Altair operates with a high degree of openness and integrity, both internally and externally. The company is full of brilliant people who produce excellent products and who truly care about their customers.
Altair provides a lot of opportunity for employees to explore new ideas which can bring greater value to Altair's customers. Also, for those who seek it, there are many opportunities for mobility and advancement within the company.

Cons – Sometimes it is difficult to maintain a consistent work/life balance.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to communicate clearly, broadly and frequently what the goals and strategies are for the company. Employees should be aware of how they are contributing towards these goals and are aligning their activities with these strategies.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Altair Engineering

Pros – Very flexible hours
You can innovate things
People will appreciate when you do a good job ( if you are more vocal with your work - otherwise your boss or the guy who is working with you will take the credit.
You will definetly learn a lots of good things if you are in a development of a young team

Cons – Pay scale is too low
Lots of politics
No growth.

Advice to Senior Management – Please increase the pay scale for hardworking people.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Altair Engineering full-time for less than a year

Pros – Family environment which is very good.

Cons – Someone say it's future is not expected very well.

Advice to Senior Management – N/A

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Altair Engineering full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Responsive managers, very relaxed, but professional atmosphere. Good incentives and excellent benefits.

Cons – Some separation in communication from corporate to the regional offices. Delay in response. Delay in awarding proper compensation for work actually performed.

Advice to Senior Management – Talk to the lower ranking employees more often. Don't focus on just the account managers,

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Altair Engineering as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Good salaries when compared to competition
Company delivers outstanding products in the market

Cons – Poor benefits and lack of career advancement for contractors

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Altair Engineering

Pros – The culture is fantastic! The company and its employees strive to keep the line of communication open between all branches, offices, and business groups.

Cons – The focus of the business is primarily on the software side, so if you're working on any of the other business sectors, be prepared to take a back seat.

Advice to Senior Management – Diversify and focus on your other business groups. The software supports Product Development and vice versa!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Altair Engineering

Pros – flexible schedule, telecommuting, great IT support.

Cons – too many products and internal tools are developed.

Advice to Senior Management – focus on system level modeling (mechatronic, multidiscipline) but overall keep doing what you're doing

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Altair Engineering

Pros – The work life balance is overall good. Salaries are average and change a lot based on seniority level. Good technological infrastructure.

Cons – Promotions are based on friendship. The C-level management lacks of vision.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen and communicate to your employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Altair Engineering

Pros – Leading edge technologies in the field of MCAE. Some capabilites that are uniquely powerful relative to competitors.

Cons – Many core technologies of the product suite come from merger's and aquisitions thus don't operate as integrated whole. Different menu systems for each product and data translations required to move through multi state simulations.

Advice to Senior Management – Seems to be impulsive and unquestioned by staff in both tactical and stratigic decisionmaking.

Current Employee – been working at Altair Engineering

Pros – Flex hours is big advantage

Cons – Monetary benefits may be a little lower compared to competition